Raül Garrigasait (Solsona, 1979) is a classicist, a translator from Greek and German, and author of essays, poetry and fiction. He holds a PhD in Classical Philology and teaches at the University of Barcelona. He presently heads La Casa dels Clàssics (The House of Classics), a project that works to popularise the universal classics. He has also translated into Catalan authors including Plato, Goethe, Rudolf Otto, Joseph Roth, and Peter Sloterdijk. His novel The Others won several accolades, including the 2017 Catalan Booksellers’ Prize and the Òmnium Award for Best Catalan Novel; he published another work of fiction in 2023, Prophecy. Some of his acclaimed essays are The Cosmopolitan Dog and Two Other Specimens (A Contra Vent, 2012), in which he explores such issues as cosmopolitanism; The Fugitive Who Doesn’t Go Away (Edicions de 1984, 2018), about Santiago Rusiñol and the beginnings of modernity in Catalonia; and the brief essay, Wrath (Fragmenta, 2020).
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